School board approves proposed budget that cuts jobs, lowers taxes

8:46 PM,
Aug. 1, 2013

Written by

Mackenzie Ryan
FLORIDA TODAY

The Brevard School Board approved a proposed tax rate and budget tonight that is expected to lower property taxes on most homes and cut more than 300 teaching positions.

As part of $25 million in previously announced budget cuts, roughly one in 20 school district jobs are being eliminated - in total about 480 jobs. The final budget is expected to be approved in September.

"If you're going to have the kind of significant reductions that we've had to our operating budget -- that we have had in the last five, six years -- it's going to affect people," Superintendent Brian Binggeli said, explaining ...